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[1 Cows—Fiction 2 City and town life—Fiction.] I Title PZ7.C9973Tan 1997 [E]—dc20 96-24269

he mayor of Tangle Town was having a badmorning “What’s wrong with this crazy door?”

he growled, pushing as hard as he could

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A passing policeman heard the noise “Are you okay in there?” he asked The mayor shouted back, “No! I’mgetting blisters! Plenty of them!”

“Disaster in the city!”

somebody cried

It was a typical day

in Tangle Town

“Blasters?” the policeman

muttered Then he announced:

“We need blasters! Twenty of

them!”

“Twenty?” said a man “That’severy plasterer in the city.”

High on a nearby hill, Roxy Toppler wasmilking the cows “Okay, Mosey,” she said.

“It’s your turn now Mosey?”

She gave a sharp whistle “Mosey! Comeback here.”

Mosey looked around Then her tail wavedgoodbye.

Mosey knew she needed milking But thiscow had wandering feet, and some days theyjust couldn’t be stopped.

So Roxy got plenty of practice rounding upcattle: “Mo-seeeey! Eeee-yip! Yoo-hoooo, hey,Mosey!”

But today’s roundup would be different.

“Yikes!” Roxy blurted “Mosey’s made tracks

In the streets of Tangle Town, sirens werewailing Horns were honking People wereshouting: “Disaster! Disaster!”

“What’s going on?” Roxy asked

“The mayor!”—“The mayor got

blistered!”—“Plastered!”—“Blasted to bits

by twenty twisters!”—“Big, big disaster!”

“Please let me through!” Roxy cried “I have tocatch my cow, and fix my fence!”

“Fix muffins?” someone yelled “At a time likethis? The blasters are coming!” And the confusionjust grew worse

Wow, thought Roxy It’s just like a stampede of scared cows! And before she knew it, Roxy’s

barnyard instincts took over

First, Roxy whistled her cow whistle, sharp andpiercing The stampeding mob jumped back insurprise.

Then—“Hee-yah! Yah!”—

—the roundup began! “Yip! Yaw!” yelled Roxy,doing what she did best “Now we’re getting

somewhere.”

She herded the crowd along Zigzag Avenue, upOvertwist Alley, and around Upper UnderloopLane

“Move along there! Push on through! Eee-yip!Where’s that cow?”

Somewhere down around RoundaboutTurnaround, Mosey’s wandering feet were getting a little mixed up.

Whichever way they went, they kept bringingher back to the Bigtwist Pretzel Mill, where allthe streets of Tangle Town meet.

“Here she comes!” hollered Roxy, twirling thefire hose like a lasso “Head ’er off at the blastingzone Fence ’er in Yip! Yip!”

Flash! Boom! The sky filled with pretzels as

the No 20 bin at the Bigtwist Pretzel Mill wasblown into tiny bits

“Hurrah!” cheered the blasters “We’ve done

it Just what the mayor ordered.”

It was all too much for Mosey She pushedthrough the nearest door

and into the office of the mayor He wassitting there, nursing his blisters in a mustardplaster “I’m saved!” said the mayor.

“Mmmmooooo,” said Mosey

Before the smoke and dust had cleared, peoplewere going back to their business Roxy milked.Sweepers swept Policemen policed, as if nothingunusual had happened It had just been one ofthose days

a typical day in Tangle Town “What’s wrong with this crazychair?” growled the mayor.